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Nikolas Mark Powell (4 November 1950 – 7 November 2019) was a British businessman and one of the co-founders of Virgin Records with Richard Branson. After operating a mail-order company, a small record shop, and a recording studio, the partners established the label in 1972.
Nov 11, 2019 · Nik Powell, who has died aged 69 from cancer, made an incalculable impact across two separate art forms. In the 1970s he was the co-founder, along with Richard Branson, his friend and childhood ...
Nov 7, 2019 · Nik Powell, a co-founder of Virgin Records with Richard Branson and a producer on films including the best picture Oscar nominee The Crying Game, has died. He was 69.
Nik Powell, who has died of cancer aged 69, played pivotal roles in developing Britain’s record shops, record labels and film industry. He was a businessman who approached both music and...
Nov 8, 2019 · Virgin Records co-founder and childhood friend of Richard Branson, Nik Powell has died in Oxford from cancer at the age of 69. Powell had been receiving treatment for cancer and passed away...
Nov 7, 2019 · British music and film producer Nik Powell, who was among the Virgin Group co-founders with Richard Branson and became an influential force in U.K. cinema, producing more than 60 titles...
He died of cancer-related illness on 7 November 2019. The distributor and producer who shook up the stuffy world of 1980s British cinema latterly became a dynamic moderniser of the country’s leading film school.
